Brick wall covered in used chewing gum located in an alleyway in Post Alley under Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle
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Head southwest on Madison St toward 4th Ave. Turn right onto 1st Ave. Turn left onto Post Alley
The Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick wall covered in used chewing gum located in an alleyway in Post Alley under Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle. Much like Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California, the Market Theater Gum Wall is a local landmark. Parts of the gum coating on the wall are several inches thick, and the coating is 15 feet (4.6 m) high along a 50-foot-long (15 m) section.
The wall is by the box office for the Market Theater. The tradition began around 1993 when patrons of Unexpected Productions' Seattle Theatresports stuck gum to the wall and placed coins in the gum blobs. Theater workers scraped the gum away twice, but eventually gave up after market officials deemed the gum wall a tourist attraction around 1999. Some people created small works of art out of gum.
It was named one of the top 5 germiest tourist attractions in 2009, second to the Blarney Stone. It is the location of the start of a ghost tour, and also a popular site with wedding photographers. The state governor, Jay Inslee, said it is his "favorite thing about Seattle you can't find anywhere else".
A scene in the 2009 Jennifer Aniston film Love Happens was shot at the wall.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gum Wall", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
